GRID

Game does not have support for 1920x1080 Resolution with newer hardware.

Users should try this.

There is a setting to select the screen aspect ratio. The default setting is "Normal", an auto mode that always follows the current resolution's AR. Selecting a specific ratio will stretch the screen to match the selection. Ratios available: 4:3, 5:4, 16:10, 16:9, 5:3.

An important thing to note is that the game does not support resolutions above 1440x900 and 1280x1024 if a graphic card with less than 512mb is detected. The game might incorrectly detect the amount of vram when using newer graphics cards, which will lock you out of using higher resolutions. Follow these steps to solve this problem:

1) Look for your hardware_settings_restrictions.xml file in your 'system' folder (default for steam version: C:\Steam\steamapps\common\grid\system\), and make a backup.

2) Open the file with Notepad. Scroll down to the bottom, remove the following entry and save the file:

data res mem="270" maxWidth="1280" /data

The restriction is now gone and you can play the game at your native resolution.

Be sure to back up the whole game to a external hard drive before doing this. Keep the back up in it's original form. All so, back up the XML. Copy & past it to a New File on your desktop in case you screw it up. It's not that hard. Just be sure to back it up. The XML file that you would be looking for is restrictions.

Put Forum window along side of the note pad window. This will help in referaning the not pad instuction.

Hi, thanks for this. My new build uses a LucidLogix hybrid GPU setting, and even though the monitor is plugged directly into my nVidia card, it detected the memory from the Intel HD4000 onboard graphics instead and locked out the resolutions. Your solution worked a treat!

Considering getting this game, so was trying the Demo and had the resolution limit issue, this worked great to fix the Demo to work at full res, thanks.Also had to use the i7 cpu edit thats in codemasters FAQ.I don't know why they don't patch the game so users don't have to do game file editing just to get the game working properly.